John Kerry

I know that "deserves it" is never true with an appointment, but it bothers me that where Kerry has always been a very loyal person and always gone the last mile for the party, he has NEVER been GIVEN anything.

By that I mean that he was not the party's or media's choice in his Lt Gov or his first Senate race or the Presidency. In each case he won the nomination by winning over enough voters on his own. (He did have the wonderful Teddy in 2004) It is strange hearing some RW media suggesting Obama should give Romney a cabinet position and remembering the "Hillary deserves a cabinet position" calls in 2009 - in contrast to the whispered "Kerry thinks he is still a Democratic leader" junk.

The strange thing this time is that my 24 years working in a big company was that one thing that was conventional wisdom there was that you never wanted to be the person to take over a position being vacated by a fast tracker (star). The reason was that anything that you tended to get the blame for anything started but not done well and almost anything good you did was said to have been started (at least in concept) under the star.

The main problem I have is why Obama (or Biden or someone) just tell Kerry before the election to spare him the disappointment and to let him tell the MA press that he really wanted to remain MA's senior Senator rather than leave MA with an excellent senior senator with only months of seniority. Rather than leave him having to say the same thing he has for years - that he is happy being Senator.